A reputed New Orleans gang member wanted in connection with a gang tied to at least 10 murders and another New Orleans man wanted on a kidnapping charge were believed to be selling heroin when they were arrested in a township motel last week, according to investigators.

Kentrell J. Hickerson, 33, and Rory B. Dimes, 31, remained in the Stark County Jail Thursday, awaiting extradition hearings that would send them back to Louisiana for trial, jail records said.

The men were arrested Jan. 7 at the Red Roof Inn, 5353 Inn Circle NW, by agents with the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, the Stark County sheriff's department and the FBI Task Force.

Jason Gaug, a deputy U.S. Marshall and Canton police officer, said the men were believed to be selling heroin here in Stark County.

But both were wanted in Louisiana.

Hickerson was one of 20 people sought after a 30-count racketeering indictment was filed in June against members of the 3-N-G gang, which was "responsible for at least 10 murders from October of 2008 to February (2013)," according to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department in June.

Hickerson and another man were able to elude police.

A kidnapping suspect, Dimes has been wanted by New Orleans police since November when he led police on a chase through three parishes there, injuring two officers whose cruiser struck a tree, according to an article in the Times-Picayune dated Nov. 14. He was wanted on charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, illegal carrying of a weapon and violation of a protection order.

Both men remained in the local jail, held without bond pending extradition hearings.